Another reason why we should not even have to ask "permission" for an ennumerated right, a la Arizona's in-state concealed carry law.It would be interesting to compare Tucson's or Phoenix's crime rate vs Chicago's.

I have had a CWP since 1976. We had the same thing happen here in South Dakota. The local liberal newspaper was demanding the names and address of all CWP holders. The Sheriffs office complied with their request but the names were never published. The State stepped in and stopped it.

I know that when/if I get pulled over that the officer behind me will know that I have this license to carry. So far it has never been a problem and I have never even had an officer ask if I have a handgun with me. I have always wondered why that is but it has never came up.

Having a CWP or not having one won't make a bit of difference as to whether or not you're targeted for gun confiscation or not. When you live in western, up country, South Carolina you're a gun owner, period.

The primary reason I have one is that I WANT to be on their list. I want the list as large as possible, I wish there were another 40,000+ people who had the "permits" whether or not they ever intend to carry a concealable firearm with them or not.

The Democratic Party should have been given the registered voter list for all parties. In many states, mental defectives and felons are not allowed to vote. It would logical to presume that all registered voters keep and bear arms as they have the right to do so. If not, that is their right to choose, not the state's.

"The primary reason I have one is that I WANT to be on their list. I want the list as large as possible, I wish there were another 40,000+ people who had the "permits" whether or not they ever intend to carry a concealable firearm with them or not.

I want the US government to continually counting the numbers."

Damned straight!

I have a CWP, I've been buying firearms from gunshops since I was 23.

I'm sure that I'm on so many damned lists that it isn't even funny.

I want the gun-grabber brigades to look at my list, and I want them to wet their pants...

"Is he going to shoot at us with his MSAR STG? Or his RRA AR-15? Or the four FAL's he owns?"

And then I want them to realize that another line of work might be a real good idea.

I want them to look at Mexico now, and imagine what it's like to be a Federal Police officer there, dealing with psychotic drug barons who actively hunt them.

And I want them to think what it would be like here, but instead of dopers, they'll be hunted by citizens filled with seething anger and determination, who can shoot straighter than they can.

I want them to realize that all they'll be to some people is a mobile firearm, ammunition, and combat boot resupply point.

I want them to say to their gun-grabbing superiors "No, I won't go. YOU go and get them."

In Florida the list is fairly well-protected. But it makes no difference. First off, a CCW permit has no information on the ownership of any guns...it simply says that the holder MAY carry a concealed weapon, which could be a gun, a knife, a sap, a Taser, etc.

And if I DID have a gun, it would not be registered. The purchase form is held for 60 days and then destroyed. Yeah, I've had a background check done on me, and I've been finger-printed, but I had at one time a Top Secret clearance, outside the military, so they already have records on me.

A significant downside to Concealed Carry is the abuse one may have to endure when encountering LEOs in the most innocent of situations.

Getting pulled over for a dead license plate bulb can result in LEOs manhandling you and your vehicle occupants in what escalates into a felony stop once they run your plates and it comes back that you may be carrying.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.